Events

• February 19 - England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, which renamed it New York
• May 21 - John Sobieski is elected by the nobility to be the King of Poland.
• June 6 - Shivaji is crowned King of the Maratha lands.
• November 10 - Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster of Feb 19, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
• December 4 - Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illinois Indians (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago).

Births

• July 17 - Isaac Watts, hymn-writer
• August 2 - Philippe II, Duke of Orléans

Deaths

• January 12 - Giacomo Carissimi Baroque era composer and musician
• November 8 - John Milton, English poet (b. 1608)
• Robert Herrick, English poet